Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|    himself, and leave off making speeches, for the politicians have
 2 Phaedr|  arguments in the law courts and speeches in the assembly; it is rather
 3 Phaedr|      that they shall use the two speeches as illustrations of the
 4 Phaedr|    return to the Phaedrus:—~Both speeches are strongly condemned by
 5 Phaedr|         the formality of the two speeches (Socrates has a sense of
 6 Phaedr|         seems to be that the two speeches proceed upon the supposition
 7 Phaedr|       probable matter. The three speeches are then passed in review:
 8 Phaedr|          make an equal number of speeches. I would except Simmias
 9 Phaedr|        was the error of both the speeches. There was also a simplicity
10 Phaedr|       anything rude in our first speeches, blame Lysias, who is the
11 Phaedr|    induce him to give up writing speeches.~SOCRATES: What a very amusing
12 Phaedr| statesmen are ashamed of writing speeches and leaving them in a written
13 Phaedr|        are so fond as of writing speeches and bequeathing them to
14 Phaedr|       SOCRATES: Yes; and the two speeches happen to afford a very
15 Phaedr|      what way?~SOCRATES: The two speeches, as you may remember, were
16 Phaedr|        to which he addresses his speeches; and this, I conceive, to
17 Phaedr|        having classified men and speeches, and their kinds and affections,
18 Phaedr|    analysis, he will next divide speeches into their different classes:—‘
19 Phaedr|          the same may be said of speeches. You would imagine that
20 Phaedr|        and to other composers of speeches—to Homer and other writers